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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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good plant of the rare Zamia Roezlii, the leaflets of which are 8-10 in. long, came from Mr. 
Bull; while Messrs. Veitchand Sons gained a First-class Certificate for Nepenthes intermedia , 
a hybrid of which one of the parents was Rafflesiana, and which had the pale green, lightly 
red-spotted pitchers, broad at the base, narrowing upwards, and being freely produced.—On 
Feb. 17, one of the prettiest exhibits was a basket of the rosy-lilac Primrose, falsely known 
as Primula altaica in gardens, from M. Miles, Esq., of Shirehampton, Bristol. Messrs. 
Veitcli had a First-class Certificate for Ahntilon Darwinii, a free-flowering plant with white 
leaves, and broadly-campanulate defiexod veiny flowers, of an orange-buff colour; and a 
Second-class Award for Odontoglossum Warscewiczii , from Costa Rica, a remarkably free- 
flowering plant, with small thin ovate pseudobulbs, and flower-scapes issuing from the leaf- 
axils of the young growths, and bearing four-flowered racemes, the flowers 2 in. across, white, 
with a dull purple spot near the base of the squarish bilobed lip.—On March 3, Mr. Green, 
of Reigate, exhibited Masdevallia melanopus, a small but charming subject, with white flowers 
having the cup-shaped portion dotted with red, and the inch-long tails yellow, the leaves 
being oblong spatliulate, and the wdrole plant not more than 3-4 in. high; it received a 
Botanical Certificate! The small white-flowered Coelogyne conferta was shown by J. L. 
Bockott, Esq., Stamford Hill.—Several interesting subjects were present at the meeting of 
March 17. H. P. Rose Hippolyte J amain, a bold-leaved large-flowered novelty, was shown 
in splendid condition, the blossoms being of a bright clear rose-colour, very full and smooth; 
Mr. Bennett, of Stapleford, Salisbury, the exhibitor, received for it a First-class Certificate. 
Other good plants not certificated, were Fhaloenopsis leucorrhoda , from Mr. Bull, a charming 
natural hybrid, the imported batch of which is yielding several very marked variations. It 
comes from the Philippines, and is no doubt intermediate between P. Schilleriana and 
P. Aphrodite (our P. amabilis); the leaves are blotched like the former in the type form; the 
flowers have the sepals and petals flushed with rose, while the lip, which has short cirrliose horns, 
is flushed with yellow, and banded and spotted with crimson-purple at the base and on the 
lateral lobes. Another form, distinguished as P. leucorrhoda grandijlora, has the loaves 
freckled all over with less distinct markings of grey, the flowers rather larger, the cirrlii 
longer, and the roots more terete,—in fact, tending more towards the amabilis type. Tlio 
New Plant and Bulb Company, of Colchester, exhibited Tulipa Greigii, a new Caucasian 
species, having tlio leaves marked with short black lines, and large narrow-petaled crimson- 
red flowers, horned at the tip of the petals, with an oblong black spot at their base, and yellow 
anthers and stigmas. Some new Hyacinths of considerable promise came from Messrs. 
Yeitch, amongst them Disraeli , a single blue, with broad segments, pale blue shaded with 
darker blue, and a good close spike; Baron Beust , a large-flowered single pale blue, with 
darker stripes; and Duchess of Edinburgh , a single blusli-red, with broadisli segments, and 
fine close spikes. Masterpiece , in tlio same group, was a fine single black-purple, with 
glossy surface, and forming a close even spike. A new white-flowered Lilac , called alba 
grandijlora , no doubt an acquisition, was shown in a forced state by Messrs. Paul and Son, 
of Clieshunt. 
- iiTff. Clafham, of Scarborough, a most successful cultivator of the 
Mimulus , has worked up a very fine strain of the maculosus type, some of them 
unrivalled in character. He gets two crops or successive generations in one year, 
by treating them after the following fashion:—He first sews on or about the 1st of March, in 
a gentle heat; the seed soon germinates, the seedlings are pricked off into pans, about fifty 
plants in each, at one inch apart; the pans are placed in a cold frame, and tlio seedlings begin to 
flower in about twelve weeks from the sowing. As they flower, the poor ones are weeded 
out, and good ones potted into thumb-pots, and used for supplying pollen with which to 
fertilise other flowers, or to bear seed. A sowing from this seed is made as early as possible 
after it has ripened—generally from the 4tli to the 20tli of July, and in the space of from 
eight to twelve weeks this batch of seedlings also blooms, and from 41ie most promising flowers 
of this second generation of seedlings is obtained the supply of seed to sow the following 
spring. These easily-grown and handsome flowers should be more popular than they are. 
- fine new Hybrid Perpetual Rose, Duchess of Edinburgh, raised by 
Mr. Bennett, was early last season awarded a First-class Certificate. It is said 
to be tlie result of crossing Marguerite de St. Amand with. Madame la Baronne 
de Rothschild, and the flower is rather like the pollen-parent in outline and colour, but 
the Avood is more robust and stubby, resembling that of the mother-parent. Tlio floAvers stand 
stiff and erect on the stalks. Somo of the back petals recurve, as is the case with La 
France, giving a pretty finish to the floAver. 
